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THOMAS ROBERT GILLETT PARKER, OF BROADHEATH, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR '10 LINO- I TYPE AND MACHINERY LIMITED, 01? LONDON, ENGLAND.

PRINTING-MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Tnoaus ROBERT Git.- LETT PARKER, a subject of the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at The Linotype \Vorks, Broadheath, in the county of Chester, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Printirig-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements connected with the inking, tripping and damping mechanisms of rotary printing machines, the improvements connected with the inking mechanism and its tripping mechanism being applicable 'to any rotary machine using either a typographic printing surface or a flexible metal plate as a printing surface, while the improvements connect ed with the damping mechanism are applicable only to machines printing on the lithographic plan from any suitable metallic, stone, or other surface.

In the specifications of Letters Patent Nos. 773,969 and 773,970 both dated November 1st 1904 means are described whereby the tripping of the impression cylinder is caused also to automatically effect the tripping of the inking rollers, coincidently therewith, the inking rollers remaining tripped as long as the impression cylinder remains so. This has sometimes been found very inconvenient as it does not readily allow of the double rolling of the rinting surface which is so often required. his double rolling has heretofore been done by either tripping the machine at alternate impressions and lowering the inking rollers by hand immediately after-they have been tri iped, or disconnecting the roller-trip gear rom the cylinder .trip gear which is a. troublesome operation and cannot be etfected while the machine is in motion.

The present invention provides means for overcoming these ditliculties and it also provides among other advantages for the automatic stopping of the supply of .water to the printing surface simultaneously with the tripping of the inking rollers.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as part of this specification and read therewith :-Figure 1 is a side elevation of as much of a printing machine as is nec cssary to illustrate the invention; Fig. 2 a side elevation of part of the apparatus by which the tripping of the inking-rollers is Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 18, 1907.

Patented War. 8, 1910.

Serial No. 362,981.

controlled, the said apparatus, in this figure, being represented in a different position of adjustment from that in which it is represented in Fig. 1.; Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly 'in section, of detached portions of Fig. 2; Fig. 3 is a view as seen from the lefthand of Fig. 2 with certain. parts omitted and other parts shown in positions differing from those in which they are shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is an elevation shown partly in vertical section of part of the apparatus, as seen from the left-hand side of Fig. 1; Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are side elevations of the apparatus for controlling the operation of the water ductor roller, each such figure showing the said )paratns in a diiferent position or at a di erent phase of its operation; and Fig. 8 is the left-hand portion and Fig.

8 the right-hand portion of a plan shown,

partly in horizontal section, of the appa ratus for controlling the operation of the water ductor roller, this View being drawn to a scale larger than that to which the other figures are drawn.

In the before-mentioned specification No.

773,970 there is described, and in the draw ings accompanying the present specification there is represented, a horizontal rocking shaft 1, extending transversely across the machine beneath the impression cylinder 2 and on which is free to oscillate a segmental gear 3 meshing with a cam-rocked sector 4. This segmental gear 3 is provided with two abutments 3, Fig. 2, capableof engaging with the respectively opposite ends of a double-ended pawl 5 which, at its center, is pivoted, as at (3, to one arm 7 ,of a bellcrank lever fast on the rocking shaft 1 and whose other arm 8 is operativcly connected by a link 9 with the eccentric bearings 10 of the impression cylinder shaft 11.

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double-ended pawl 5 is capable of being turnednpon its pivot (5 by a suitable lever 12 unde1the control of the operator. On the rockingshaft 1 there is rigidly secured an arm 13 on which are pivoted two oppositely directed spring-controlled pawls 14,

which disk, by a rod 23 and lever 24, Fig. 1,

is operativcly connected with the horizontally adjustable cam bars which serve to raise the inking rollers 26. All these devices or the equivalents thereof, are, as indicated in the accompanying drawings, retained in the present invention which, so

far as regards the tripping of the inkingrollers 26, consists in means, under the control of the operator, for, when desired, pre venting the spring-controlled pawl 15 trom engaging its respective ratchet tooth or abutment 2t. For this purpose the said pawl 15 is provided with a laterally projet-ting anti-friction roller 27, and an adjustable curved arm or cam 28 pivoted at one end to a fixed bracket 29, Fig. 3, is adapted to engage this roller to move -the pawl 15 (against the action of its spring 30) outward or downward beyond the reach of the ratchet tooth 21. When the arm or cam 28 is in its raised or normal position, its operative or outer surface is concentric or substantially concentric with the axis of the rocking shaft 1 and has no ellectupon the pawl 15 which is thus left free to engage with the tooth 21. The vibrating end of the pivoted arm or cam 28 is connected to a spring 31 which normally holds the said arm in its ineffective or raised position, and it is also connected to a rod 32 carrying a foot-tread 33 and a locking pin 34, the latter, as shown in Fig. 2, capable of engaging with a plate or equivalent fast to the underside of the attendantsplatform or stand 36.

When it is desired that the inking rollers 26 shall be tripped conjointly with the tripping of the impression cylinder 52. the foot tread 33 is allowed to remain in its uppermost position, as shown in Fig. 1, and consequently this result is attained as hereto tore, through the pawl 15 engaging with the tooth 21, when, however, it is desired that the impression cylinder 2 shall be tripped without also theinking rollers -2( .as for example when double rolling is necessary, then the foot-tread is depressed, and retained so by engaging the locking pin 34 with the plate 35, as shown in Figs. 'Z-and 3 so that the pawl 15, by the roller 27 traveling along the then-depressed arm or cam 2 is prevented from engaging with the tooth 21 and therefore from connnunicating motion to the toothed disk 22, the foot-tread 32 being released by disengaging the pin 34 from the plate 35 and thereby allowed to ascend under the influence of the spring 31, as soon as it is desired that the next tripping ot' the impression cylinder 2 shall also ell'ect the tripping oi the inking rollers 26.

For etlecting the bef ire-mentioned stop page of the supply of water to the printin surface, the cam-operated rocking shaft 34 which, like the corresponding shaft numbered 117 in the before mentioned specification No. 773,970, vibrates the ductor roller" part upward. into such a position relatively to the anti-friction roller 42 as to prevent the duetbr roller 38, when raised, from descending on to the water fountain roller 39. The cum %3 which is hereinafter referred to as a locking cam, is provided with a slot 46 having a shoulder 47, see particularly Fig. (i, \vhcreon usually rests a pin 48 fast in the lower end of a rod 4?). herein termed a thrust rod whose upper end is pivoted to o1 i arm 50 ofa lever,a second and lip-stand in'g arm 51 of which is adapted to engage with a stud 52 fast to one of the before- Inentioned cam bars a spring or equiva- -lent means is provided for normally retaining the pin 48, on the slot shoulder 47, but preferably this result is obtained by hollowing out the said shoulder, as shown best in Fig. (3, so that, under the influence of the spring the pin =18 has a constant tendency to remain in the hollowof the shoulder.

The arm of the lever 50, 51 is provided with a plunger 53, see particularly Fig. 8, adapted to enter a hole 54. Fig.5, in the ma chine frame for looking the said lever, and when required, preventing its upstanding arm 51 from following the stud 52 with which it is normally in contact. a stop pin 56 may also be provided for limiting the movement oi the said arm away from the stud 52. The locking cam 43'n1ay be provided with an outstanding grip or rod 57 for enabling it to be readily depressed by the operator against the action of its spring 45, and a stop 58 is also provided for limiting the movement of the cam 43 under the influence of the said spring.

When the inking rollers 26 are tripped, whether conjoint-1y with, or independently at, the tripping of the impression cylinder 2. the stud 52 on the respective cam bar 25 is moved away from the before mentioned upstanding lever arm 51, with the result that. when the ductor roll 38, is next raised,

as ordinarily, by its cam 59 the locking cam -13. by its spring 45, is moved up behind the locking arm 41 as shown in Fig. 5, and will maintain the ductor roller 38 in its raised position, preventing it from descending on to the water fountain roller 35), until the inking rollers shall be next un tripped.

\Vhen it is desired to stop the supply of. water to the printing surface during the otherwise normal working of the p inting 54 in the machine frame,

machine, the operator moves the thrust rod 49 laterally (toward the left in Figs. 1. 5 and 7) so as to disengage its pin ts from the slot shoulder 47, so that when next the ductor roller 38 is raised, the locking cam under the influence of its spring 45. will be moved behind the locking arm H as shown in Fig. (l, and will thereby maintain the ductor roller 38 in its raised position out of contact with the 'ater fountain roller 39. this condition of working continuing until the locking cam 43 is next depressed by the operator, and the pin :8 is caused to reengage the slot shoulder 47.

Vhen it is desired to trip the inking rollers 26 without affecting the damping mechanism, the plunger is inserted in the hole and consequently, as shown in Fig. 7, the before-mentioned upstanding lever arm 51 is locked back and prevented from following the stud 52 on the adjacent adjustable cam bar 25.

In respects other than those hereinbetore particnlarized, the various parts of the apparatus represented in the accompanying drawings are constructed and operate substantially as described in the before mentioned specifications, the only material ditfcrence being in the next described means by which the lever 12 is operated, these means, however, constitute no part of the present invention. In the arrangement. illustrated in the accompanying drawings the lever 12 is rigidly secured to a rocking shaft 59 on which is also fixed a downwardly-extending arm 60 the lower end of which engages between two collars (S1, (32, the former loose and the latter fast upon a horizontally movable rod (33, these collars being respectively acted upon by the inner ends of two springs 64, whose outer ends respectively bear against the collar (it; fast on the rod (33 and a standard (37 which, conjointly with the second standard (38, serves to support the rod (33 and guide it in its horizontal movement. On the right hand end of the rod 63, as shown in Fig. 1, is secured a collar 69 with which engages one arm of a lever 70 whose other arm is pivoted to the lower end of a rod 'i'l which projects to the upper side of the platform 36, where, at its upper end, it is provided with a foot tread 72.

I claim, 1. The combination of cooperating print ing and impression cylinders, inking roll ers cooperating with the printing cylinder, tripping means for said impression cylinder, tripping means for said inking rollers, cam opcratively fast to one of the cylinders, driving gear operativcly connected with the cam and with both of said tripping means and adapted to operate both of the latter sin'iultaneously, controlling means governing the said driving gear for rendering said i l l gear operative or inoperative, and control ling means governing said inking roller tripping gear only, whereby the inking rollers may either not be tripped or be directly tripped by the cylinder tripping means.

2. In a printing machine the con'ibination with the impression cylinder, n'ieclianism adapted to trip the impression cylinder. the inking rollers, a pivoted disk adapted to effect the tripping of the inking rollers, and a pawl adapted normally to operate the disk to effect such tripping of the inking rollers when the impression cylinder is being tripped, of a device under the control of the operator adapted to prevent the pawl from operating the disk when the impression cylinder is being tripped.

3. In a printing machine the combination with ductor, water fountain and distributing rollers, and a rocking shat't adapted to vibrate the (luctor roller into contact nately with the water fountain roller and the distributer roller,'of an arm fast to the rocking shaft, a spring-actuated -ain adapted to engage the arm for holding the ductor roller out of contact with the water fountain roller, and an adjustable device adapted to normally hold the cam in its inoperative position and to release it for engaging with the above named arm, 7

4-. In printing machine the combination of inking rollers, means adapted to trip the inking rollers, dnctor, water fountain and distributing rollers, a rocking shat't adapted to vibrate the ductor roller into conta t alternately with the water fountain roller and the distributer roller, an arm fast to the rocking shaft, a spring-actuatml camadapted to engage the arm for holding the ductor roller out of contact with the water fountain roller, and an adjustable device in operative connection with the inking roller tripping means, adapted to normally hold the cam in its inoperative position and to release it for engaging with the abovenamed arm.

In 'a printing machine the combination of impression cylinder, means adapted to trip the impression cylinder, inking rollers, means adapted to trip the inking rollers, ductor, Water fountain and distributing rollers, a rocking shaft adapted to vibrate the ductor roller into contact alternately with the water fountain roller and the distributer roller, an arm fast to the rocking shaft, 1 spring-actuated cam adapted to engage the arm for holding the dnctor roller out of contact with the water tountain roller, and an adjustable device in operative connection with the inking roller tripping means, adapted to normally hold the cam in its inoperative position and to release it. for engaging with the above named arm.

(3. In a printing machine the combination of inking rollers, a longitudinally adjustalt-er-.

ductor, water fountain alilc can] har adapted to trip the inking rollers, doctor, water fountain and dishihuting rollers, a rocking shaft, adapted to vibrate the ductor roller into contact alternately with the Water fountain roller and the distributor roller, devices adapted to hold the ductor roller out of contact with the Water fountain roller, and devices 0 erativcly connecting the last-named devices with the cam bar and adapted to hold the trihuter roller, a mun adapted to hold the doctor roller out of contact with the Water fountain roller, a device tending to constantly more the cam into position tor tnlfilling the last nznued function, a rod operatively connecting the can]. with the cam bar and an adjustable slidahle connection he tween the cam and the rod.

5%. In a printing machine the combination of inking rollers, a longitudinally adjustahlc cani har adapted to trip the inking rollers, and distributing rollers, a rocking shaft adapted to vibrate the duetor roller into contact alternately with the water fountain roller and the dis trihuter roller, a cam adapted to hold. the doctor roller out; of contact. with the Water fountain roller, :1 device tending to constautly move the earn into position for fulfillingthe lastoiamed function, a slot in the inking rollers arc 9. A printing machine having in con1hi' nation an nupression cylinder, mechanism adapted to trip the impression cylinder, inking rollers. mechanism adapted to automatically trip the inliing rollers conjointly with I the tripping of the impression cylinder, mechanism capable of being adjusted to allow of either the said conjoint operation or of the tripping of the impression cylinder iinlependently of that of the inking rollers, ductor, water fountain and distributing rollers, mechanism adapted to move the duetor roller from the Water fountain roller to the rlistributer roller and vice versa, an adjustahle device adapted in. one position to allow the ductor roller to descend to the ink fountain roller and in another position to prevent such descent, an adjustable connection between the said device and the n1ccl1-- anisni tor tripping the inking rollers WllGIE: by the last-named operation is caused to control the operation or adjustment of the said device, and lneans adapted to render inettective the said adjustable connection.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

THOMAS ROBERT GILLH'PT PARKER. lVitnesses VVILLIAM EDWARD BnNmsoN, lHARRY VViLLiAi-n: Noomrnnun. 

